Can Mobile Internet Help Alleviate Social Exclusion in Developing Countries?

Chigona, Wallace; Beukes, Darry; Vally, Junaid; Tanner, Maureen

doi:10.1002/j.1681-4835.2009.tb00254.x

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“…The provision of telecommunication infrastructure enables the internet ease of use and implementation (lTU, 2002). The use of internet has been playing a great role in development, and alleviation of social exclusions among nations (Chigona, Vally, Beukes & Tanner, 2009). To buttress this point is the case of Singapore where the use of internet in education and social activities has been promoted by government making over one-third of its inhabitants internet users with over 50 PCs per 100 inhabitants.…”

Section: Telecommunications and Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the Impact of ICT Investments on Human Development

Bankole

Shirazi

Brown

2011

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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In the last two decades, the worldwide information and communication technology (ICT) market has been growing at a rapid rate. This has led to a global net increase in ICT investments and usage. International organizations, ICT vendors and policy makers have been investigating whether such large investments are worthwhile. The results regarding this issue are inconclusive, for this research area is fraught with complexity, and existing empirical work is limited. This study investigates the impact of ICT investments on human development. Of particular interest are the relationships between different dimensions of ICT investment and the components of human development. ICT investments can be thought of as having four dimensions – hardware, software, internal spending and telecommunication investment, while typical human development indicators are standard of living (GDP per capita), education (literacy and school enrolments) and health (life expectancy). If these variables are not modelled correctly, their effect on each other can be either under‐ or overestimated. In this article, the line of enquiry from a study by Kim et al. (2008) is extended to investigate the relationship between the four aspects of ICT investments and the three key components of human development. The empirical analysis shows that the four dimensions of ICT investment have an impact in various ways on the components of human development, and that these impacts are different, in high income, mid income and low income countries. Based on these findings, this study suggests theoretical propositions to explain the impact of ICT investments on human development.

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Section: Telecommunications and Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the Impact of ICT Investments on Human Development

Bankole

Shirazi

Brown

2011

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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“…Examples include assessments of public access facilities (Chigona, Lekwane, Westcott, & Chigona, 2011;Gomez, Pather, & Dosono, 2012) and a study on the adoption of communal computing facilities among the urban poor (Chigona & Licker, 2008). Other work includes a study on the potential of mobile internet to address social exclusion (Chigona, Beukes, Vally, & Tanner, 2009) and a study on how people access the internet from their homes (I. Brown, Letsididi, & Nazeer, 2009).…”

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Assessing South African ICT4D research outputs: a journal review

Turpin¹

2018

SACJ

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South Africa is an ideal test bed for ICT4D research, since on the one hand it has stark development challenges, and on the other hand it has well established ICT infrastructure that could be utilised towards socio-economic development. Not surprisingly, a plethora of ICT4D projects are executed in South Africa by a variety of role-players. This paper focuses on how effective South African researchers are in converting ICT4D research activity into significant research outputs. Since effective research is assessed by journal publications, a review was done of papers published by South African authors in the prominent international ICT4D journals. It is found that while South Africa has a prominent presence in ICT4D journals, this prominence is concentrated in one research institution and one ICT4D journal. A surprising finding is that cooperation among research institutions that leads to co-authored publications is very low, even among neighbouring institutions. Future research is suggested to investigate the good practices of the most prolific research institution, to investigate reasons for the low cooperation between institutions and to more thoroughly investigate the research contributions made by the South African authors.

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“…There are also issues concerning the robust provision of electricity -mobile technologies are often more power-efficient than many other non-mobile ICTs (Jalal et al 2012;Jalal et al 2013). Previous studies suggest that attempting to change people's behaviour by government instruction or institution level mandate is often a problematic process with limited success (Chigona et al 2009;Matavire et al 2010). Research suggests that it may be more efficient to leverage existing behaviours and integrate these into a bottom-up implementation plan .…”

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“…Mobile technologies are more important than non-mobile technologies for building a sustainable SA e-education strategy because mobile technologies are comparatively cheaper (Bodnar 2002;Chigona et al 2009;Evans 2006;Renken & Heeks 2013). For the needs of many communities in South Africa, mobile technologies have relatively wider accessibility, are more power efficient, more reliable, and much more widely used and understood (Chigona et al, 2009;.…”

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“…For the needs of many communities in South Africa, mobile technologies have relatively wider accessibility, are more power efficient, more reliable, and much more widely used and understood (Chigona et al, 2009;. Non-mobile technologies by comparison are prohibitively expensive and suffer from a lack of existing infrastructure or knowledge (Aker & Mbiti 2010;Odendaal 2011).…”

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The Dreams Plan: A Blupoint Strategy for e‐Education Provision in South Africa

Walls

Santer

Wills

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E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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Since 2004, the government of South Africa has issued a number of white papers calling for the development of a national e-education strategy. A recent study published in this journal (Mooketsi & Chigona, 2014) suggests that the current e-education strategy is not working for many communities in South Africa. This paper presents an alternative e-education strategy for South Africa known as the DREAMs plan (Digital Resources for Education And Mobility). The DREAMs plan proposes the following three conjectures. First, offline platforms are more important than online platforms for building a sustainable SA e-education strategy. Second, mobile technologies are more important than non-mobile technologies for building a sustainable SA e-education strategy. Third, sideloading cultures are more important than downloading cultures for building a sustainable SA e-education strategy. The paper finishes with some final thoughts on the place of dreaming and dreamers in the wider development agenda.

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Can Mobile Internet Help Alleviate Social Exclusion in Developing Countries?

Cited by 67 publications

References 14 publications

Investigating the Impact of ICT Investments on Human Development

Investigating the Impact of ICT Investments on Human Development

Assessing South African ICT4D research outputs: a journal review

The Dreams Plan: A Blupoint Strategy for e‐Education Provision in South Africa

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